Woodcreek, TX 78676 Frost Dates
78676, near Woodcreek, TX: the frost window
Around 03/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 185 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/01, roughly 276 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Woodcreek in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woodcreek's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Woodcreek's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodcreek against the rest of the dataset
About 276 days separate Woodcreek's last and first frost, putting it 5,112 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within TX, it ranks 841 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 78676: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Woodcreek's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Woodcreek's dates instead of trusting one.